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Google offering live hockey stats as it enters melee for real-time data
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AdMob’s Omar Hamoui leaves Google for “personal reasons”
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Yahoo Mail gets a face lift and a speed boost
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Professional social network Ushi is China’s answer to LinkedIn
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33 ways to make your app a hit: VentureBeat’s Discovery Directory
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Four reasons why Facebook should acquire Skype
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Confirmed: AOL acquires TechCrunch, founder Arrington to stay at least 3 years
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Alibaba and eBay: More competition than cooperation, despite a show of friendship
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Hackers and entrepreneurs feel the love at DEMO Fall 2010
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DEMO: Footfeed aims to soothe consumers’ check-in fatigue
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Backupify raises $4.5M to save your social media shenanigans
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The three people you need to hear from at DEMO, September 13-15
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Location-based check-in data on its way to becoming a commodity
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Twitter throwing business models at the wall, seeing what sticks
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Google, Verizon deny anti-net neutrality report
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Activity-tracking service The Hotlist launches iPhone app
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Facebook puts on the full court press to win over media publishers
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Site Ownership 101
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Live-blog: Zuckerberg and David Kirkpatrick on the Facebook Effect
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Fred Wilson: Apple is evil and Facebook is just a photo-sharing site
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Venture titans Kleiner and Sequoia team up behind Jive
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Foursquare talking to Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft about search deals
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Roundup: Firefox comes to the iPhone, MySpace gets a makeover and more
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Twitter’s new deal service, EarlyBird, takes flight with help from Groupon, Gilt
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Here’s what happened at MobileBeat 2010
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iCrossing founder returns to search marketing
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Twitter dips its feathers into flash sales with EarlyBird
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Bill Gross buys his way onto Twitter for Android
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Roundup: Venrock raising $350M, what it takes to be a top 100 website, and more
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